By Lewis of Orange                                    H.B. No. 2173
       74R3081 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement of separating certain classes of
    1-3  inmates in a county jail.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 351.005, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 351.005.  SEPARATION <SEGREGATION> REQUIREMENTS.  A
    1-8  county jail must have solid walls constructed of masonry, metal, or
    1-9  a comparable material, designed to form separate enclosures to
   1-10  separate different classes of inmates housed in the jail as
   1-11  required by the facilities classification plan and rules of the
   1-12  Commission on Jail Standards <segregate the following classes of
   1-13  individuals:>
   1-14              <(1)  witnesses from all classes of prisoners;>
   1-15              <(2)  males from females;>
   1-16              <(3)  juveniles from adults;>
   1-17              <(4)  first offenders awaiting trial from all classes
   1-18  of convicted prisoners; and>
   1-19              <(5)  prisoners with communicable diseases from all
   1-20  other classes of prisoners>.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.